Department Faculty

Professor Mann teaches and researches on a number of issues in Old and Middle English literature, including marriage and family structures, the role of religion, gender and sexuality, and the history of the book. She teaches World Literature I and various classes on early British literature, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, and the history of the English language. In addition to reading, Dr. Mann spends her free time practicing calligraphy, cooking, and playing pinochle. She enjoys traveling abroad whenever possible.

Brooke TaylorAssistant Professor of English and Director of the Honors College
(618) 239-6160btaylor1@lindenwood.edu

Professor Taylor’s teaching and research interests include Victorian novels, Modernist fiction, gender and sexuality, gothic and sensation literature, letters, nineteenth-century science, and nineteenth-century crime and punishment. Her work has been published in Dickens Quarterly and George Eliot and G. H. Lewes Studies. She teaches World Literature II and courses on British and American Lit. When she’s not reading novels or grading essays, she enjoys practicing yoga, attempting to golf, tackling DIY projects, and spending time with her husband and young daughter.